RE: [spoon-discuss] Auto Remailer

["SkArcher" <SkArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spoon-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:spoon-discuss-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Lepage
> Sent: 24 September 2003 01:59
> To: discussion list for B Nomic
> Subject: Re: [spoon-discuss] Auto Remailer
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 07:35 PM, Joel Uckelman wrote:
>
> > Thus spake Daniel Lepage:
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 06:41 PM, SkArcher wrote:
> >>
> >>> If you would. In specific I want a program that accepts 1 e-mail from
> >>> each
> >>> player and mails them out to the business list at a checkpoint. If a
> >>> second
> >>> mail is sent from a specific player, the first mail is discarded and
> >>> the
> >>> second mail is sent (rinse and repeat that bit for third and
> >>> subsequent of
> >>> course)
> >>
> >> That's significantly harder to do... somehow the program would have to
> >> be notified whenever the clock turned off and on, or else it wouldn't
> >> know when checkpoints hit.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Wonko
> >
> > Right now, responses from each address my program asks for a reply are
> > individually necessary and jointly sufficient for the escrow to be
> > released.
> > What you want is for one or more messages to be individually
> > sufficient for
> > releasing the escrow. That way, you can have the clock send mail when
> > there's a checkpoint, thus triggering a release.
>
> Can the clock do that reliably? I know at one point the clock was
> having the same problem you want to use it to solve - when the Game
> Clock stopped, the clock shown on the website kept ticking until Dave
> manually reset it.
>
> Has that been fixed?

The major result of the rule I am trying to write is to remove the grunt
work of having to tally the votes from the administrator and make it a duty
(remember those, I wrote the rule before my net connection failed because of
my move?). Because all of the votes are in the public domain its the kind of
thing that can be given to one of us to do.

The idea here is (ideally) that the auto-mailer will accept PV's at any
time, and will spit the PV's out to the main list (publicly viewable, as all
votes are) at the close of voting. Then it will be a duty for someone to
tally all the votes and post the colated results. Dave will only have to
implement them, not take ages to count them.

Of course, it could also become useful if you want to disguise what your
vote on an issue is, or something like that. Tactical voting :)

SkArcher

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